Jeff was recently interviewed for Russian newspaper
Petropavlovsk, which is based in Kazakhstan. Read
what he has to say here, as he reflects
on his songwriting, his influences and his time
with the band.
 Christie
bass player Kevin Moore, along with Christie drummer
Simon Kay, have formed the Christie Revival Band,
a tribute outfit aimed at keeping Jeff's legacy
alive on the stage. The sets include the usual Christie
hits plus many others not often played live, such
as Man of Many Faces.
There'll also be a sprinkling of Creedence songs
and others in the same county rock mould.
The band includes Mike Koch
(who's played with Kevin in BC Sweet and Les McKeown's
Bay City Rollers) on guitar and vocals. Keep a look
out for them if they appear on a gig in your area.
Kev is truly a man of many faces,
having played in an assortment of groups over the
years, apart from the ones mentioned above. The
genres have ranged from glitter rock to heavy metal,
and he's also involved with an acoustic outfit named
Steve Bonham and the Long Road, co-writing and performing
on a two-album set that was recently released.
The band is doing a short tour
of Germany in April this year, where they will be
performing a number of Christie songs! See
here for details.
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Steve Isherwood, who played guitar with the Outer
Limits on the Hendrix tour, recently passed away.
Read Jeff's tribute here.
We told you that big news was forthcoming from
Alfonso Cuarón, the much-acclaimed director
of movies like Gravity
and Children of Men.
We can now reveal that his next film, called ROMA,
is scheduled to be released in theaters, as well as
streaming on Netflix, on December 14 this year.
It had its world premiere at the Venice Film
Festival on August 30 and will show at the Toronto
International Film Festival on September 10 and
the New York Film Festival on October 5.
On review aggregator Rotten
Tomatoes, Roma holds
an approval rating of 96 per cent based on 23 reviews,
with an average rating of 8.9/10. On Metacritic, the
film has a weighted average score of 96 out of 100,
based on 13 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".
What's this got to do with Christie?
Watch the movie and you will hear a familiar song!
See the trailer
here.
Another great collection of UK beat music from
the 60s has been released by the same team which brought
you When
Night Comes Down, which featured Just
One More Chance.
Fab Gear
draws heavily from the vaults of Pye Records and sister
label Piccadilly, and focuses on the scene’s
later gems from 1965/66, which were often musically
superior to those earlier works.
The six-CD box set offers around 180
tracks in chronological order from the mid-1960s,
and includes many of the era’s biggest names
such as The Kinks, The Moody Blues, The Searchers,
Marmalade and The Tremeloes.
The Outer Limits are represented by the
rocking Any
Day Now and its killer riff.
A hefty booklet boasts band-by-band histories
and details of each recording.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO
JEFF CHRISTIE!
JULY 12: Let's all
drink a toast to the man who's given us so much
pleasure all these years, and hopefully for
many more years to come! And what's Jeff's favourite
celebratory drink? Click the pic to find out!
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JUNE 6: 48 years ago, Yellow
River topped the UK charts and stayed there
for three weeks. In the months to follow, the song
would also be No 1 in 25 other countries!
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